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At the township of Guadalupe, loca- ted in the La Chorrera district in the province of Panamá Oeste, is a po- pular sector known as Loma de Gua- dalupe where it was common to hear complaints about the bad conditions of the roads and the difficulties faced by the population to go and leave the place. The Loma de Guadalupe road was made of dirt, making access very difficult. For some months now, the situation has changed for the more than 400 families who live in the surrounding areas since FCC Construcción Amé- rica has refurbished the main road to the community, cleaned brook, ins- FCC contributes to giving a new face to Loma de Guadalupe, in La Chorrera (Panama) talled a new sewer system and built a new road for vehicles where pre- viously there was only a pedestrian crosswalk. Work executed to benefit the local residents The above-mentioned works are in keeping with Corporate Social Res- ponsibility activities by the Company in communities near the El Coco Quarry, administered by Sociedad Agregados y Materiales de Pana- má, S.A (AMPASA), as part of the FCC Construcción Group in Ameri- ca since 2005. Ernesto Sosa Morales, the engineer in charge of production at this qua- rry and head of transport, explained that the Company is always willing to collaborate for the welfare of peo- ple who live in the areas close to the quarry and that the work executed, in addition to improving transport in the region, also contributes to redu- cing the amount of dust and mud sin- ce most of the street was previously made of dirt. Sosa explained that 1,606.50 m2 of the road was levelled and filled, com- pacted with a 10 cm layer, the base layer was sealed using #5 stone (1st sealing) and #7 sto9nes (2nd sea- ling) in order to ensure that it was a quality work. For María Díaz, who has been living 32 years in Loma de Guadalupe, the work carried out by FCC Construc- ción América has improved the lives of its residents 100% since the for- mer bad conditions of the road was responsible for transport and safety problems and also in relation to the collection of waste. Remarks by María Díaz ““I was very worried because the- re was a big hole on the side of the street behind my house and was afraid every time that a car drove by”, she said. It was very gratifying for her to see the speed and the quality of the work executed by the Company. Abundio González, who has lived in this place for 27 years, remembers how taxis and private cars often left the neighbours at the beginning of the street and they had to walk the rest of the way because cars would always get stuck in the mud. R E S P O N S A B I L I T Y R E S P ON S A B I L I T Y 32